My personal blog site for University of Hertfordshires Digital Histories Module.

Wednesday, 8 February 2012

Presentation Plans

Was recently thinking about doing a presentation in Digital History on the British Libraries newspaper database which I have been looking at extensively over the past year/eighteen months. Although provincial coverage is not brilliant, it could still be worth investigating as many articles are picked up on in other newspapers. Thus, some news stories are still reported despite the lack of coverage. However, I think it's OCR and search engine still leave a lot to be desired as you get results with nothing to do with your key words. Link follows...